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Author Ehrlich, Joshua, 1987- author

Title The East India Company and the politics of knowledge / Joshua Ehrlich, University of Macau
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages)
Contents Warren Hastings and the idea of conciliation -- Conciliation after Hastings -- The politics of the College of Fort William -- Scholar-officials and the later company state -- Education and the persistence of the company state
Summary "In this original and deeply researched account, Ehrlich transforms the histories of the East India Company and British India. He reveals that, for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the pursuit of knowledge played a fundamental role in the Company's politics and ideology"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 28, 2023)
Subject East India Company -- History
SUBJECT East India Company fast
Subject Elite (Social sciences) -- India
Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects -- History
Education -- India -- History -- 19th century
Colonization
Education
Elite (Social sciences)
Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects
SUBJECT India -- Colonization
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
Subject India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022060968
ISBN 9781009367967
100936796X